the u.s. perspective? if the release of jonathan pollard would induce the prime minister of israel to fundamentally change positions on jerusalem borders, security and refugees so-called final status issues. well, absolutely. wolf, it won t. and you remember in the fall of 2010, the administration, in order to secure a two-month extension of the settlements freeze, wouldn t etch give the israelis f-35s and a lot of other military equipment for a two-month extension. this, wolf, is a tactic in search of a stratstrategy. pollard is like a fallen soldier to them. they abandoned him. as you know, you wrote the book on it. they abandoned him. their asking is not the problem. the issue is why are we acquiescing, and to buy time for a process that is fundamentally impaired. it s not a done deal yet. it sure isn t. we ll see what happens. i remember the y river talks.
the last moment because they weren t on mr. obama s official schedule. he expressed his appreciation for the two sides coming together. the israeli-palestinian delegations are just now beginning to talk to each other and the goal of today s meeting $ set up a framework for resolving the so-called final status issues, the 22 years of mideast peace negotiations have failed to find agreement on. we re talking about borders, status of jerusalem, israeli security and the rights of palestinian refugees. secretary kerry says the two sides will meet within the next two weeks, either in israel or in the palestinian territory. last night secretary kerry hosted the delegations at a dinner after meeting with each of them separately. there was no real negotiating at that dinner. the dinner was more about establishing that each side had come to washington serious about reaching an agreement and negotiating in good faith. this is the second push for a mideast peace agreement of the obama administrati
you could take that as hello saudi arabia, hello syria. you could take it as a hello to the others in the region who the president knows could undermine these negotiations through any number of actions. david mentioned jimmy carter. that was 32 years ago, wolf. 32 years ago the historic peace agreement between egypt and israel. since then every president has tried. we both covered bill clinton. he got as close as any president has ever come to getting the israelis and palestinians to put ink to paper to a peace deal and it collapsed in the end. in part, one of the important reasons, said the regional partners, in part, not the only reason but in the end when arafat started to waver a little bit the president then bill clinton could not get the egyptians and the jordanians and others to nudge him along because they complained they had not been involved at the beginning. they didn t know the details. so that was one of the reasons they had difficulties at the end. but none of the signifi
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